Just when you thought the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) couldn’t sink any lower, an embarrassing federal audit exposes the scandal-plagued agency for awarding dozens of tax-delinquent companies with millions of dollars in government contracts. It may seem like a bad joke, that the nation’s feared tax agency does business with…

It seems like all the executive agencies are intent on stonewalling Judicial Watch’s investigations. Now we learn that Catherine Duval, the IRS lawyer at the center of the Lois Lerner email scandal, is now headed to the State Department to manage the release of Hillary Clinton-related documents.

The IRS has been stonewalling Judicial Watch’s attempts to obtain Lois Lerner’s emails in our efforts to get to the bottom of the IRS targeting scandal. The most recent line from the IRS is that employees “accidentally” deleted the backup tapes containing possibly more than 24,000 Lerner emails.

Sidney Powell writes in The New York Observer that it’s time Lois Lerner was held accountable for her actions in targeting conservative political groups and individuals during the months before the 2012 presidential election.

Throughout President Barack Obama’s supposed “most transparent administration in history,” we’ve been reminded time and time again just how hostile the federal government can be to transparency, particularly when partisan political considerations are at play … .

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to report to him by June 29 the status of the recovery and release of emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials. The Court also ordered a court hearing, scheduling…

Judicial Watch informed the court handling its FOIA case regarding Lois Lerner’s emails that even if there are duplicates in the 6,400 emails discovered by TIGTA, the IRS should still turn them over. Allowing the IRS to maintain them could ultimately result in more emails simply being “lost.”

Fox Business reports on Judicial Watch’s ongoing lawsuit to obtain Lois Lerner’s emails. The IRS has admitted they have new documents, but is still stonewalling and refusing to release them in response to Judicial Watch’s lawsuit.

Judicial Watch recently won a battle in the fight for transparency at the IRS, when a federal judge issued an order for the IRS to provide an update on the status of Lois Lerner’s supposedly “lost” emails. This order is important to getting justice for those targeted by the IRS for their political positions.

Judicial Watch successfully forced the IRS to provide answers about the more-than 32,000 emails, at least, that the IRS “recovered” from Lois Lerner’s account. A federal judge has declared that the IRS must provide those answers in a timely fashion.

Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a Judicial Watch request to issue an order requiring the IRS to provide answers by June 12, 2015, on the status of the Lois Lerner “lost” emails.

Yesterday, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton testified before a House Government Oversight Committee hearing on the Freedom of Information Act, warning the panel that there is a “transparency crisis” in Washington. “Never in our history,” Tom noted, “has so much money been spent with so little accountability.” On Benghazi, the…

Congress has essentially failed to provide accountability in the IRS targeting case. It has issued subpoenas that have been ignored, and it continues to fund agencies that thumb their noses at congressional efforts to gain answers. Congress needs to get tougher.